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Book SynopsisComputers have dramatically altered life in the late twentieth century. Today we can draw on worldwide computer links, speeding up communications by radio, newspapers, and television. Ideas fly back and forth and circle the globe at the speed of electricity. And just around the corner lurks full-blown virtual reality, in which we will be able to immerse ourselves in a computer simulation not only of the actual physical world, but of any imagined world. As we begin to move in and out of a computer-generated world, Michael Heim asks, how will the way we perceive our world change? In The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Heim considers this and other philosophical issues of the Information Age. With an eye for the dark as well as the bright side of computer technology, he explores the logical and historical origins of our computer-generated world and speculates about the future direction of our computerized lives. He discusses such topics as the effect of word-processing on the English langTrade Reviewaccessible essays from the self-appointed philosopher of virtual reality * I-D *Heim's blend of Western logic, Eastern Mysticism and California grass may amount to a minor classic for PC-users--Zen and the art of Macintosh maintenance. These essays are full of good vibes. * Modern Review *

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Book SynopsisAccording to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new information age, one that will revolutionize how workers work, how companies compete, perhaps even how thinkers think. And it is certainly true that Information Technology has become a giant industry. In America, more that 50% of all capital spending goes into IT, accounting for more than a third of the growth of the entire American economy in the last four years. Over the last decade, IT spending in the U.S. is estimated at 3 trillion dollars. And yet, by almost all accounts, IT hasn''t worked all that well. Why is it that so many of the companies that rave invested in these costly new technologies never saw the returns they had hoped for? And why do workers, even CEOs, find it so hard to adjust to new IT systems? In Information Ecology, Thomas Davenport proposes a revolutionary new way to look at information management, one that takes into account the total information environment within an organization. ArguiTrade Review"An important, must-read book about managers and their information needs."--F.Warren McFarlan, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University"Information Ecology defines mobilization for the future, a topic that is clearly thought provoking and one that we must all address if true information technology return on investment is to occur."--Ralph J. Szygenda, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Corporation'...a timely corrective to the technophile culture that has dominated the field of information to date...an informative book for those who want to manage information and not just IT to the best effect within both business and healthcare.' * Chris Atkinson, British Jnl of Healthcare Computing & Information Management, vol.15, Number 5 *A well argued , and well presented, case that needs to be read by all those wrestling with this critical subject. - Stuart MacDonald - Long Range Planning Vol 31 Oct 1988

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Book SynopsisIn this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies -- solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication -- together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world''s wealth.Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences: the invention of the telescope turning the medieval view of the world upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring elecTrade ReviewFreeman Dyson, a legendary figure in the sciences, has given us a thoughtful and thought-provoking glimpse into the 21st century. The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet is a must-read for anyone who wants a sneak preview into the future. Only Dyson could weave together this rich tapestry, blending ethics, ideology, science, and technology into a coherent vision of the future. * Michio Kaku *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; EPILOGUE ; REFERENCES

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Book SynopsisComputers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity. But the standard ethical theories don''t seem adequate, and more socially engaged and engaging robots will be needed. As the authors show, the quest to build machines that are capable of telling right from wrong has begun. Moral Machines is Trade ReviewWhen machines go it alone, accountability disappears - and with it the rule of law. Which is why philosophers Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen are asking how we can persuade robots to do the right thing. The result, in their seminal...book Moral Machines, makes clear just how far we have to go. * Stephen Cave, Financial Times *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Who Machine Morality? ; 2. Engineering Morality ; 3. Do We Want Computers Making Moral Decisions ; 4. Can (Ro)bots Really be Moral? ; 5. Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of Artificial Moral Agents; ; 6. Top Down Morality ; 7. Bottom-Up and Developmental Approaches ; 8. Merging Top Down and Bottom Up ; 9. Beyond Vaporware? ; 10. Beyond Reason ; 11. A More Human-Like AMA ; 12. Beyond the Beyond: Managing Dangers, Rights, and Responsibilities ; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisAn invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares.--John Gilby, Times Higher EducationMoral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists.-Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWritten with an abundance of examples and lessons learned, scenarios of incidents that may happen, and elaborate discussions on existing artificial agents on the cutting edge of research/practice, Moral Machines goes beyond what is known as computer ethics into what will soon be called the discipline of machine morality. Highly recommended.-G. Trajkovski, CHOICE...the book does succeed in making the essential point that the phrase ''moral machine'' is not an oxymoron. It also provides a window onto an area of research with which psychologists are unlikely to be familiar and one from which, at some point, we may be able to learn quite a lot.-PsycCRITIQUES MTrade ReviewAn invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares. * John Gilby, Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsPREFACE

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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to share one thing in common: online and offline solidarity shaped around the public display of emotion. Social media facilitate feelings of engagement, in ways that frequently make people feel re-energized about politics. In doing so, media do not make or break revolutions but they do lend emerging, storytelling publics their own means for feeling their way into events, frequently by making those involved a part of the developing story. Technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices facilitate engagement among movements tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab SpriTrade ReviewI HEART #affectivepublics! Zizi Papacharissi brings enormous insight and much needed clarity to current debates about the role of social media in political life. Rejecting binaries which ascribe social movements to Twitter or Facebook or that dismiss all forms of online participation as 'Slacktivism,' she instead acknowledges the ways that social media has provided opportunities for new forms of expression and affiliation, new 'structures of feeling' that can in the right circumstances help to inspire and expand political movements. Her approach mixes theoretical sophistication with empirical rigor as it forces us to rethink what we thought we knew about the Egyptian Revolution and the Occupy movement. * Henry Jenkins, co-author of Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture *Affective Publics transcends the already stale debate between those who see social media as effecting political change and those who castigate it for irrelevant chatter. Instead, in an original move, carefully argued and empirically grounded, Papacharissi shows us how social media facilitate emotionally resonant and collaboratively constructed narratives which, in turn, support civically significant 'soft structures of engagement'. * Sonia Livingstone, co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement *A compelling and necessary read. Papacharissi shows how fact, opinion and feeling are threaded together on social platforms to create affective publics. Where the traditional accounts of normative civic debate online have rejected emotion, this book opens up the potential of messiness, intensity and pathos in networked media. * Kate Crawford, professor, and author of Adult Themes *The book comprises a first comprehensive study of this kind, providing both theoretical analysis and empirical methodology and data to highlight the multidimensional character of social media usage in politics. * Evika Karamagioli, International Journal of Electronic Governance *this book offers a unique, rigorous, and well-rationalized argument for analyzing affect and microblogging. ... Certainly this book has the ability to spark future research for scholars across multiple disciplines. * Amber L. Ferris, Mobile Media & Communication *This book is very rich in its philosophical thinking, which readers interested in political mobilization, civic discourse, and networked publics may find inspiring. It also offers researchers and professionals a foundation for further research and practice via testing the propositions presented. * Yiwei Wang, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Prelude ; Chapter One: The Present Affect ; Chapter Two: Affective News and Networked Publics ; Chapter Three: Affective Demands and the New Political ; Chapter Four: The Personal as Political: Everyday Disruptions of the Political Mainstream ; Chapter Five: Affective Publics ; Notes ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; D.M.Berry An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; L.Evans & S.Rees How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Röhle Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; J.Parikka Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; C.Bassett The Esthetics of Hidden Things; S.Dexter The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; M.Terras Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; D.Dixon Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualization; A.Heftberger The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; M.Currie How to See One Million Images? A Computational MTrade Review'Berry and colleagues present us with several current and future trajectories of the digital humanities, both building and questioning its trends. Through the last 40 years of computational research, the humanities have appropriated and developed many techniques for doing their work computationally, but only in the last ten years has the excess of computational capacity begun to bring central questions about the nature of the humanities to light. David Berry and his colleagues sit on the cutting edges of these questions, and their work will inform those debates for years to come.' - Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA 'This book introduces and debates important questions regarding the use of digital technologies in numerous academic approaches in humanities and social sciences. These new media technologies are impacting across the disciplinary spectrum and pose challenges to traditional scholarship. Dr Berry's book gives us a timely insight into these various challenges and into the kinds of new 'digital humanities' that are emerging. Clearly written and providing a wide range of examples and case studies it is an important contribution to the growing literature on digital humanities.' - Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; D.M.Berry An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; L.Evans & S.Rees How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Röhle Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; J.Parikka Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; C.Bassett The Esthetics of Hidden Things; S.Dexter The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; M.Terras Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; D.Dixon Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualization; A.Heftberger The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; M.Currie How to See One Million Images? A Computational Methodology for Visual Culture and Media Research; L.Manovich Cultures of Formalization: Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing; J.van Zundert, A.Antonijevic, A.Beaulieu, K.van Dalen-Oskam, D.Zeldenrust & T.Andrews Trans-disciplinarity and Digital Humanity: Lessons Learned from Developing Text Mining Tools for Textual Analysis; Y.Lin Index

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Book SynopsisThis exploration of the nature of cyberspace and increasing virtualization of everyday life argues that electronic neighbourhoods should be less important to us than our geophysical neighbourhoods, speaking in favour of civic networking.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book SynopsisPart of the "Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory" series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented?Trade Review"Mackenzie seeks to pinpoint the relationship between conceptions of technology and technology as a physical and temporal process. Although Mackenzie's philosophical exploration of transductions of the living and nonliving addresses broad subject matter, the underlying concepts are analyzed with precision." Summing Up: Recommended. -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Radical contingency and the materializations of technology; 2. From stone to radiation: the depth and speed of technical embodiments; 3. The technicity of time: 1.00 oscillations/sec to 9,192,631,770 Hz; 4. Infrastructure and individuation: speed and delay in Stelarc's Ping Body'; 5. Losing time at the PlayStation: realtime and the 'whatever' body; 6. Life, collectives and the pre-vital technicity of biotechnology Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisTechnologists frequently promote self-tracking devices as objective tools. This book argues that such glib and often worrying assertions must be placed in the context of precarious industry dynamics. By ethnographically exploring how tech executives navigate this business environment, the book reveals the practical ambiguity of digital knowledge.

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Book SynopsisAs democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies. This volume analyses the various factors that shape such participation, and addresses such key topics as civic subjectivity, web intellectuals, and cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"Dahlgren reflects with great clarity and insight upon forms of 'alternative' or 'extra-parliamentary' online political action. This is an under-studied theme and this book will contribute to the literature in ways that previous studies of the Internet and political democracy have not." - Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: Snapshots from a Revolt PART I: POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION ON THE WEB 1. Democracy, Participation, and Media Connections 2. Force-fields of the Web Environment PART II: EVOLVING FORMS AND PRACTICES 3. Occupy Wall Street: Discursive Strategies and Fields 4. Online Public Intellectuals 5. Web Journalism and Civic Cosmopolitanism: Professional vs. Participatory Ideals PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES 6. The Civic Subject and Media-Based Agency 7. Critical Media Research: Something Old, New, and Unfinished References

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Book SynopsisFrom addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children - and not for the better.

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Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.’ Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI_A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet – and how that affects us all – from technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon.The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook.In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of a creative, entrepreneurial internet doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation – a distinction he calls ‘the computer vs the casino’.Drawing on a 25-year career in the software industry, Dixon lucidly shows how the history of the internet has been defined by three distinct eras that have brought us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the ‘read’ era, in which early networks democratized information. The second was the ‘read-write’ era, in which corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the ‘read-write-own’ era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone – internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs – who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.‘A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3 to drive even greater innovation.’ Robert Iger, CEO, Disney'Fascinating . . . a refreshing and radical new take at a time when we need fresh thinking more than ever.' Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and author of The Coming WaveTrade ReviewRead this book to understand a compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there * SAM ALTMAN, CEO, OpenAI *A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3 to drive even greater innovation, inspire more imaginative thinking, and ultimately unlock new growth opportunities in the future * BOB IGER, CEO, Disney *This is a pivotal moment for the internet. Chris Dixon’s fascinating book offers a refreshing and radical new take at a time when we need fresh thinking more than ever * MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection and author of The Coming Wave *Whether you’re already interested in crypto or just curious about blockchains, web3, & the future of the internet, this is the definitive book about the industry * EMILIE CHOI, President and Chief Operating Officer, Coinbase *This book changed my mind . . . The best positive case for crypto I’ve seen * KEVIN KELLY, founding editor Wired *Read this book to understand a compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there * SAM ALTMAN, CEO, OpenAI *A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3 to drive even greater innovation, inspire more imaginative thinking, and ultimately unlock new growth opportunities in the future * BOB IGER, CEO, Disney *This is a pivotal moment for the internet. Chris Dixon’s fascinating book offers a refreshing and radical new take at a time when we need fresh thinking more than ever * MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection and author of The Coming Wave *Whether you’re already interested in crypto or just curious about blockchains, web3, & the future of the internet, this is the definitive book about the industry * EMILIE CHOI, President and Chief Operating Officer, Coinbase *This book changed my mind . . . The best positive case for crypto I’ve seen * KEVIN KELLY, founding editor Wired *

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in April 2020. The 18 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: methodological and theoretical perspectives on persuasive design; persuasive in practice, digital insights; persuasive technologies for health and wellbeing; persuasive solutions for a sustainable future; and on security and ethics in persuasive technology.Table of ContentsMethodological and theoretical perspectives on persuasive design.- Persuasive in practice, digital insights.- Persuasive technologies for health and wellbeing.- Persuasive solutions for a sustainable future.- On security and ethics in Persuasive Technology.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the innovation of blockchain technology and the advantages it offers. It provides a clear and comprehensive overview of blockchain technology and its possibilities, and thereby helps readers to form an opinion and draw their own conclusions about its potential exploitations.The book begins with a chapter on the topic of decentralized networks, which familiarizes readers with their challenges by using the example of an online trading platform. Hereinafter, it is then detailed what blockchain technology is, where it comes from, and how it works. The necessary underlying technologies are explained, and various individual approaches as well as their composition are presented. Using well-known examples such as Bitcoin and Ethereum as an illustration, the book looks at the architecture of blockchain technology and focuses on the challenges such as security and scalability. The options available when introducing blockchain technology are also outlined, and best-practice examples are presented to get a better idea of what areas benefit from this technology.Numerous examples and detailed explanations will accompany the readers throughout the book. By the time they have reached the end, they will be able to decide for themselves what is truly innovative about blockchain technology and what is nothing more than hype.Table of Contents​1. Introduction.- 2. What Is Hidden Behind the Term “Blockchain”?.- 3. Technical Basics for a Better Understanding of Blockchain Technology.- 4. Where Does the Hype End, and Where Does the Innovation of Blockchain Technology Begin?.- 5. The Right Use Leads to Success.- 6. Projects and Application Areas of Blockchain Technology.- 7. Summary.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities. This book aims to attract works on multidisciplinary research spanning across the computer science and engineering, environmental studies, services, urban planning and development, social sciences and industrial engineering on technologies, case studies, novel approaches, and visionary ideas related to data-driven innovative solutions and big data-powered applications to cope with the real world challenges for building smart cities.Table of Contents1. Smart City Ecosystem – An Introduction.- 2. Datafication for secured smart cities.- 3. Secured big data infrastructure services.- 4. Intelligent infrastructure of secured smart cities.- 5. Cyber-physical systems for secured smart cities.- 6. Blockchain for smart cities.- 7. Context-aware security and privacy of smart cities.- 7. Privacy and social Issues in smart cities.- 8. Sensor and RFID applications of smart cities.- 9. Advanced data mining for secured smart cities.- 10. Big data for secured smart cities.- 11. Data analytics tools and technologies for smart cities.- 12. Machine learning and AI for secured smart cities.

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Book SynopsisDesign for flexibility requires anticipation, preparation, creativity and experience. Future highly digital sociotechnical systems should contrast with those stemming from technology-centered engineering that produces objects and machines with the immensely codified and rigid practices we know today. Most of the time, current technologies are designed and developed for normal situations, leaving users to manage abnormal and emergency situations themselves, sometimes under unforeseen, extreme and/or dangerous conditions. Putting humans at the center of the design of flexible sociotechnical systems means visualizing possible futures, modeling them, simulating them and leading them down the right paths. This book is for the engineering designers, who seek to better understand the roles of humans and organizations developing complex life-critical systems. It is also for those who train future designers who will have to take into account the well-being, safety, sustainability and efficiency of the actors of future sociotechnical systems. It is about an emergent discipline, human systems integration (HSI). The aim of the flexibility challenge is to put the artificial at the service of the natural, and not the other way around. The author, an aerospace engineering designer, has worked for 40 years in the field of human-centered design (HCD) of complex systems, discovering repeatedly that automation leads to rigidity, especially when things go wrong. It is urgent we had a new paradigm where flexibility is a major asset in human systems integration. HCD is seen here as the combination of practices and technologies to come.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- A framework for flexibility analysis in sociotechnical systems.- A few methodological clarifications.- Articulating human systems integration.- Activity-based design: Scenarios, HSI evolution and innovation.- Model-based human systems integration flexibility.- The unavoidable issue of tangibility.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for social Good, GOODTECHS 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 24 full papers presented were selected from 53 submissions and issue design, implementation, deployment, operation, and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Social goods are products and services provided through private enterprises, government, or non-profit institutions and are related to healthcare, safety, sports, environment, democracy, computer science, and human rights. The papers are arranged in tracks on machine learning; IoT; social considerations of technology; technology and ageing; healthcare.Table of ContentsLearning.- Balancing activity recognition and privacy preservation with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm.- Biometric data capture as a way to identify lack f physical activity in daily life.- Comparative Analysis of Process Mining Algorithms in Python.- COVID-19 Next Day Trend ForecastAnomaly Detection in Cellular IoT with Machine Learning.- Internet of Things.- A Smart IoT System for Water Monitoring and Analysis.- Decentralising the Internet of Medical Things with Distributed Ledger Technologies and Off-Chain Storages: a Proof of Concept.- Towards a Monitoring Framework for Users of Retirement Houses with Mobile Sensing.- Temporal authorization graphs: Pros, Cons and Limits.- Advanced 5G Network Slicing Isolation Using Enhanced VPN+ for Healthcare Verticals.- Social considerations of technology.- GuideSwarm: A Drone Network Design to Assist Visually-impaired People.- LISA - Lingua Italiana dei Segni Accessibile: A Progressive Web App to Support Communication Between Deaf People and Public Administrations.- Building emotionally stable, inclusive, and healthy communities with ICT: from state of the art to PSsmile app.- issue design, implementation, deployment, operation, and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Social goods are products and services provided through private enterprises, government, or non-profit institutions and are related to healthcare, safety, sports, environment, democracy, computer science, and human rights. The papers are arranged in tracks on machine learning; IoT; social considerations of technology; technology and ageing; healthcare.- Machine Management Technology for Institutional Environment in Pandemic Times.- Technology and ageing.- Augmented Reality, Vrtual Reality and Mixed Reality as driver tools for promoting cognitive activity and avoid isolation in ageing population.- Ageing@home: A secure 5G welfare technology solution for elderlies.- Defining the instruments for zero-measurement of psychological well-being at older adults.- DERCA Tool: A set of Tests for Analysis of Elderly Dexterity in Information and Communications Technologies.- Building Inclusive Environments for All Ages with Citizens.- Healthcare.- The New Era of Technology applied to Cardiovascular Patients: State-of-the-art and Questionnaire applied for a System Proposal.- Co-design and engineering of user requirements for a novel ICT healthcare solution in Murcia, Spain.- What do nurses and carers in Portual wish and need from a digital intelligent assistant for nursing applications.- Examining Furniture Preferences of The Elderly in Greece.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can coexist. The introductory chapter describes major milestones in computer science which form the basis for the implementation of digital twins and digital selves. The subsequent Part I then lays the foundation to develop a socio-technical understanding of the nature of digital twins as representations and trans-human development objects. Following the conceptual understanding of digital twins and how they could be engineered according to cognitive and organizational structures, Part II forms the groundwork for understanding social behavior and its modeling. It discusses various perception-based socio-emotional approaches before sketching behavior-relevant models and their simulation capabilities. In particular, it is shown how emotions can substantially influence the collective behavior of artificial actors. Part III eventually presents a symbiosis showing under which preconditions digital selves might construct and produce digital twins as integrated design elements in trans-human ecosystems. The chapters in this part are dedicated to opportunities and modes of co-creating reflective socio-trans-human systems based on digital twin models, exploring mutual control and continuous development. The final epilog is congenitally speculative in its nature by presenting thoughts on future developments of artificial life in computational substrates. The book is written for researchers and professionals in areas like cyber-physical systems, robotics, social simulation or systems engineering, interested to take a speculative look into the future of digital twins and autonomous agents. It also touches upon philosophical aspects of digital twins, digital selves and humanoids.Table of Contents1. Major Historical Landmarks in Computer Science.- Part I: Digital Twins: Advent and Trans-human Development.- 2. Background and Foundations.- 3. Beyond Data: Unifying Behavior Modeling.- Part II: Social Behavior of Artificial Agents.- 4. Background and Motivation.- 5. Simulation Methods and Game Theory.- 6. Social Dilemmas and Problems of Social Order.- 7. Emotional Modeling with Spatial Games.- 8. Agent-Based Stochastic Simulation of Emotions.- Part III: A Symbiosis.- 9. System-of-Systems Thinking.- 10. Provision of Information as Relational Task.- 11. Enabling Contextual Adaptation.- 12. Embodying Social Behavior.- 13. How to Create Digital Selves.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Prediction Room: A Rough Outline of a Model of Cognition.- Part I: Problem Solving and Reasoning.- Einstellung.- Analogical Reasoning.- More Reasoning: Inference and Prediction.- Transfer Skills, Production Rules, and Prediction.- Qualitative Physics.- Situated Cognition.- Part II: Memory.- Recall from Long Term Memory.- Interference with Real World Knowledge.- Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs.- Is Knowledge Represented in Propositions?.- Associationism.- Procedural and Declarative Knowledge.- Part III: Language.- Language.- Inner Speech.- Babies and Other Primates.- Gestures.- Part IV: Action.- Action and Identity.- Predictive Modeling and Active Inference.- Part V: Being Human and Being Artificial.- Embodiment and Grounding.- Concepts?.- Emotions.- Intuition.- Belief-Desire Psychology.- Part VI: Mechanisms and Interpretation.- In the Engine Room: Transformer Models.- In the Engine Room--The Brain.- Virtuality, Reading in, and Emergence.- Coda.

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Book SynopsisChapter1 From School to University: Intervention methods.- Chapter 2 From Bachelor/Master Studies to PhD.- Chapter 3 From PhD to Professor.- Chapter 4 Cooperation with Industry and Society.- Chapter 5 Strategy and Dissemination.

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Book Synopsis.- Digital economy, Digital transformation, e-Government and e-services..- Digital Identity Frameworks: A Review..- Cloud adoption in low resource settings: A case of higher education institutions in Uganda..- A Blueprint for South African Public Schools ICT Infrastructure..- Re-Thinking the Connectivity for Schools within the Public Education System in South Africa..- Deep Learning Approaches for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving: Smart Cities Perspective..- ICT infrastructures for critical environmental conditions..- Internet of Energy (IoE): A Comprehensive Review of Design, Principles, and Architectural. Frameworks.- Enhancing Power Efficiency in NB-IoT Networks: PAPR Reduction in SC-FDMA..- Modelling of a solar photovoltaic power supply for a wireless access point in a rural area..- Wireless networks..- FSO Transmission Link Performance Analysis for Enhancing Internet Infrastructure on Côte D'Ivoire..- Lightweight authentication system for software-defined wireless sensor networks..- A K-means based approach for Optimal Gateway Deployment in LoRaWAN-SIM..- Assessing the Impact of Web Caching on Resource Utilization in Low-Capacity Networks..- Channel Allocation Based K-Medoids in a Wireless Mesh Network..- E-health..- Digitization of Patient Records in Maxillofacial and Stomatology Surgery: The Case of the Maxillofacial and Stomatology Surgery Unit at Sominé Dolo Hospital in Mopti, Mali..- Design of an Electronic Health Record Module in the Pediatrics Department of the Ouahigouya Regional University Hospital Center..- Emergency Severity Index (ESI), a more suitable system for emergencies in Burkina Faso..- Cybersecurity and Privacy..- The State of Data Breaches in the African Cyberspace: A Trend Analysis Using Social Media and Research Literature..- Advancing Mobile Money Payments Through Blockchain and Interoperability Protocols..- Blackhole attack detection and countermeasure solution in RPL..- Social Engineering Attacks on the Cyber-Physical System: Human Cyber and Physical Impacts..- Proposal of honeypot - based datamining methods for discovering intrusions in big data databases..- Potential Cyber Threats to the National Elections in the Digital Age in Africa..- Intersection of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics: Data Protecting Techniques and Uncovering Data Clues..- Emerging Phishing Attack Trends: A South African Case Study..- 5G Network Security: Unraveling Vulnerabilities and Innovating Defense Mechanisms.

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Book Synopsis.- Systems and cloud computing..- Proposal for a formal definition to the problem of migration of a virtual machine..- Investigating Cost-Effective Computing Infrastructure for Schools/Community Centres Using Raspberry PIs..- Digital Forensics Investigations: Major Challenges in Mobile and Cloud Forensics..- A cloud-based drones' model for detection and tracking of stationary and motion-based snakes in farms in marginalized rural areas: A preliminary study..- A Domain Specific Language (DSL) for agro-ecosystems modeling and simulation..- Artificial Intelligence..- Leveraging Conversational AI for Accelerating User-driven Software Testing..- Integration of artificial intelligence with diabetic data for increasingly personalized medicine..- Question design using NLP..- Edge- AI and Internet of Things for intelligent Systems : Architectures, Applications and Future Perspectives..- Comparative study of Name Entity Recognition models in Burkina Faso context..- Ontology, data preparation..- PLAVIDA, an annotation tool for audio and video in African languages..- Towards a framework for the preparation of high quality data for use by machine learning algorithms..- CAOGen: An Automatic Ontology Constructor Based on Data Mining Techniques..- Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development in Africa (workshop)..- Artificial Intelligence for the Analysis of the Security Situation in Burkina Faso..- Analysis, design and implementation of a ripe mango detection program in Burkina Faso..- Financial Fraud Detection Using Rich Mobile Money Transaction Datasets..- Culture ontology to enhance social cohesion..- New zero watermarking scheme based on hyper-catadioptric system model and hyperbolic geometry..- Cotton disease detection on UAV images: A Deep Learning-based approach with YOLOv7.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Artificial Intelligence.- Informatics.- The Web.- Platforms.- "The System is Failing".- Digital Humanism and the Vienna Manifesto.- The Digital Humanism Initiative.- It's Simple, It's Complicated.- Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis.- Personalized Persuasion..- Design of a Personalised AI Coaching Assistant for Occupational Health and Safety..- Analysing user feedback on Commerical diet tracking app..- Personalized Social Proof for Persuasive Human-Robot Interaction..- Personalized Digital Interventions for Behavior Change: Insights from the MoM App Study..- Theory and Exploration..- Exploring the Potential and Limitations of Large Language Models to Control the Behavior of Embodied Persuasive Agents..- Insights into the Design of Ethical and Trustworthy Persuasive Technologies..- Effect of Competitive and Cooperative Learning Contexts in Controversial Information Search: Preliminary Results..- The Heuristic Evaluation of Manipulative Interfaces..- Digital Persuasion: Understanding the Impact of Online Influencers on Public Opinion..- Design and Solutions..- LifeLink: The Design and Evaluation of an mHealth App for Caregivers Supporting Individuals with Suicidality..- Bridging Research and Practice in Persuasive Mobile Stress Management Apps: A 21-Year Comparative Analysis and Novel Design Framework..- Designing Behavior Change Support Systems for Recovery from Addictions: Mapping Software Features with Counseling Strategies..- Investigation of the Eye Donor Aust app’s Persuasiveness..- MyHealthCore: Towards A Community-Engaged HIV Prevention Persuasive mHealth App for Black Communities in Canada..- Emotions and Behaviour..- Health Risk Management Using Persuasive Technology: A Scoping Review..- Evaluation of an Emotion-Aware Persuasive Framework Based on Peripheral Interaction for Reducing Physical Strain in Office Environments..- On People’s Susceptibility to Persuasive Techniques in Social Engineering: Is It About the Technique or Their Readiness to Be Persuaded..- Behavior Change Games..- AMRageddon v1: The Design and Usability Evaluation of a Digital Escape Room Game for Antimicrobial Resistance Education through Persuasive technology..- PetBuddy: An Examination of Augmented Reality Mobile Health Game for Promoting Physical Activity..- The Motivational Appeal of Persuasive Strategies in a Healthy Eating Behaviour Change Game..- Personality and Individual Differences..- (Un)sustainable Personalities: The Role of Personality When Persuading To Adopt Sustainable Behaviours..- Non binary-people are harder to persuade: evidence and insights..- Gamified vs. Non-Gamified Language Learning: the Role of Working Memory and Gaming Disorder.

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Book SynopsisFoundations and Frameworks of eParticipation.- Conceptualizing Inclusive eParticipation: A Systematic Literature Review.- The Socio-technical Factors that Influence the Use of E-Participation in Rural Uganda.- Use and Awareness of E-Participation Offerings in the Metropolitan Area of Koblenz.- Digitization of Political Parties: The Role of Political Topics in Social Media Engagement during the 2024 German State Elections.- AI and Algorithmic Systems in Public Administration.- A Silent Partner: The Shadow Presence of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration.- From Regulation to Implementation: Understanding the Impact of the EU AI Act on Public Sector Institutions in Germany.- ReflectAI: Design and Evaluation of an AI Coach to Support Public Servants’ Self-Reflection.- Understanding the Affordances and Constraints of Explainable AI in Safety-Critical Contexts: A Case Study in Dutch Social Welfare.- Interdisciplinary Competencies for AI-enabled Co-creation: Mapping Public Sector Skills in Poland and Ukraine.- Governance, Collaboration, and Policy Alignment.- Untangling the Digital Governance Landscape of the European Union: A Framework and Application to Digital Technologies.- A Review of Governance Challenges in Cross-Ministerial Collaborations for IT-based Service Provisioning.- GovTech Strategic Alignment and Management in the Public Sector.- Alignment for Digital Transformation in Government: A Design Perspective.- Local Practices, Implementation, and Innovation.- Exploring the Practices of the Local Government Twin Transition: The Case of Leuven.- From Promise to Practice: Exploration of Differences in Digital Citizen Participation in a Municipal Context.- ECoProMD – Towards a Maturity Model and Method for Digital Project Management in Municipalities.- Driving Change Through Interdependent Routines: How Citizen-centric and Data-driven Contact Centers Initiate Change Across Intraorganizational Boundaries.- Digital Services, Usability, and Citizen Interaction.-

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